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Bubble buster game tonight? MAAC title game, Monmouth v Iona
8 years 1 month ago #5500
by HawkErrant
Watching this game (Metro Atlantic regular season #1 v #2, as it should be 
) as I write this.
Iona has made the MAAC tournament title game for the third straight year, having lost the last 2 years to Manhattan.
The Gaels had led the entire game until the Hawks tied it 23-23 with 3:33 left in H1, and Monmouth leads 34-30 at the half.
No one expected such a low scoring game (they split during the season, 110-102 Monmouth, 83-67 Iona, both games were road wins), but these two teams are going at each other tooth and nail.
According to Jay Bilas and Joe Lunardi, as far as *they* are concerned Monmouth should be in, win or lose, because of it's W-L schedule.
Monmouth has 13 road wins and 17 road & neutral wins in addition to winning the MAAC regular season title.
Should Iona win, Monmouth seems to have a real shot at getting in despite not being in a major conference.
And although Monmouth has started to come alive at the close of H1, remember that Iona has been in this game 3 years running, and lost the first two times. And Iona won the last meeting between the two, at Monmouth.
Can Iona pull it off? And if they do, will Monmouth still Dance?
Bubble, bubble, who's on the bubble?
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
1 Monmouth 27-6 (17-3 MAAC)
2 Iona 21-10 (16-4 MAAC) ) as I write this.Iona has made the MAAC tournament title game for the third straight year, having lost the last 2 years to Manhattan.
The Gaels had led the entire game until the Hawks tied it 23-23 with 3:33 left in H1, and Monmouth leads 34-30 at the half.
No one expected such a low scoring game (they split during the season, 110-102 Monmouth, 83-67 Iona, both games were road wins), but these two teams are going at each other tooth and nail.
According to Jay Bilas and Joe Lunardi, as far as *they* are concerned Monmouth should be in, win or lose, because of it's W-L schedule.
Monmouth has 13 road wins and 17 road & neutral wins in addition to winning the MAAC regular season title.
Those road wins include
@ UCLA W84-81
@ GTWN W83-68
@ RUTG W73-67
The neutral site wins include
v 7 ND W70-68
v DAY L73-70
v USC W83-73Should Iona win, Monmouth seems to have a real shot at getting in despite not being in a major conference.
And although Monmouth has started to come alive at the close of H1, remember that Iona has been in this game 3 years running, and lost the first two times. And Iona won the last meeting between the two, at Monmouth.
Can Iona pull it off? And if they do, will Monmouth still Dance?
Bubble, bubble, who's on the bubble?
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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